Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Size:XL: 100 x 70cm at natural size and at

at natural size and at magnifications of x5 and x50

London during the Reform Banquet

Zoological studies of a 'Calandra' from North America [possibly the female Horned lark Eremophila alpestris] posed on a turf divot

An 18th century illustration of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

17th July 1953

Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Size:XL: 100 x 70cm at natural size and atBlenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1814. From Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker, 1814. Mining engineer and inventor John Blenkinsop (1783 1831) designed the first practicable steam locomotive, the 'Salamanca', in 1812. It operated by means of a rack and pinion system. Richard Trevithick had built a steam locomotive in 1805 for Wylam colliery, but it had been too heavy for the cast iron rails it was meant